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A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B. R. Myers Publisher Comments Available for the first time, the full-length, unexpurgated version of the essay that incited one of the most passionate literary controversies ever in American letters... When the Atlantic Monthly first published an excerpted version of B. R. Myers... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Problems in Literary Resea 4ed by Dorothea Kehler Publisher Comments The fourth edition of a reference guide that teaches, offering students of literature and library science a clear and pedagogically effective presentation of 36 of the most useful works for the study of English and American literature. Each of the 36... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature by Websters Book News Annotation Provides summaries of authors' careers (classic authors of the past and well-known authors of today) and literary works (same formula: the literary canon and well-known modern works) as well as mythological and folkloric figures, fictional characters,... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Oxford guide to contemporary writing by Oxford Publisher Comments Contemporary writing is arguably the most exciting and attractive reading matter for a vast majority of readers--but by its nature it is the least charted. What, for instance, are the most interesting novels written in Israel in the last few years? Who... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Erotics of Domination: Male Desire and the Mistress in Latin Love Poetry by Ellen Greene Publisher Comments The study of women in antiquity is a well-established area of research in the classics. In The Erotics of Domination, Ellen Greene reexamines long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male sexual desire and female subjection in the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature by David P Barash Publisher Comments What can elephant seals tell us about Homer’s Iliad? How do gorillas illuminate the works of Shakespeare? What do bloodsucking bats have to do with John Steinbeck? MADAME BOVARY’S OVARIES A Darwinian Look at Literature According to... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $2.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Limits of Interpretation by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments This important book by a major international intellectual figure begins with four theoretical essays dealing with various aspects of interpretive theory. In this collection of essays, the author focuses on what he calls the limits of interpretation, or... (read more) Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Even As We Speak New Essays 1993 2001 by Clive James Synopsis A collection of essays, both illuminating and humourous, by Clive James. He focuses on Australian poetry, television, the rise and fall of various icons, the holocaust, the state of culture in the 1990s, and the death of Diana.... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture by Dana Gioia Publisher Comments In a brilliant array of essays that tests the pulse of traditional and contemporary poetry, Gioia ("Can Poetry Matter?") ponders the future of the written word and how it might find its most relevant incarnation.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Literary Criticism on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Out of the Ashes by Thomas Doulis Publisher Comments Out of the Ashes, The Emergence of Greek Fiction in the Nineteenth Century, is the result of a novelist's interest in the genre of fiction and the product of decades of research. Fiction is a form that requires certain linguistic and social conditions... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modernism Themes in 20th Century Literature & Culture by Tim Armstrong Publisher Comments The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Temple of Culture: Assimilation & Anti-Semitism in Literary Anglo-America by Jonathan Freedman Publisher Comments From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of... (read more) List Price $128.00 Your price $7.58 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Children's Culture Reader by Henry Jenkins Publisher Comments Far from noncombatants whom we seek to protect from the contamination posed by adult knowledge, children form the very basis on which we fight over the nature and values of our society, and over our hopes and fears for the future. Unfortunately, our... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Critical Writings by F T Marinetti Publisher Comments The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of “cultural necrophiliacs” and sought to annihilate the values of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Half-Life of an American Essayist by Arthur Krystal Publisher Comments The twelve essays in The Half-Life-the title is from Goethe's "Experience is only half of experience"-go deeper than the standard book piece; they hew to the line first drawn by Montaigne and later extended by Dr. Johnson, Hazlitt, Woolf and Orwell... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lives of the Poets by Michael Schmidt Synopsis This is the story of poetry, from the 14th century to the present day. The author surveys the rise of English poetry and the language itself from the Black Death to Paul Muldoon and Thom Gunn. Each chapter relates the poet's life and work to the... (read more) Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Herbert Woodward Martin and the African American Tradition in Poetry by Ronald Primeau Publisher Comments Herbert Woodward Martin is a prize-winning poet and performer, an actor and playwright, a singer and opera librettist, a professor, and a scholar. Born in Alabama in 1933 Martin and his family moved to Toledo, Ohio, when Herbert was twelve years old. His... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture #16: Conversations with Texas Writers by Francis Leonard Publisher Comments Larry McMurtry declares, Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did. Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, I've just never had a desire to write about any place else. In between those figurative bookends are hundreds of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Kevin J Hayes Publisher Comments 'This introduction sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of Melville’s entire oeuvre.'... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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